The Prince William Yankees were a two-year entry in Minor League Baseball’s Carolina League during the summers of 1987 and 1988. Under the ultimately mistaken belief that the Yankees would pull their affiliation at the close of the 1988 season, the team held a fan contest to rename the team and became the Prince William Cannons in 1989. (The Yanks would stay on as the Cannons’ parent club through 1993).
The Vancouver Ravens were a supremely troubled box lacrosse franchise that played in the National Lacrosse League for three seasons from 2001 through 2004. Despite two promising seasons on the floor and strong crowds during their debut season, the Ravens’ chronic ownership turmoil soon brought the club crashing down.
There have been four different versions of the Silver Sox baseball team in Reno since World War II. Today we will take a look at the original Silver Sox club, formed as a Class C farm club of the New York Giants in 1947. The team played three seasons in the Sunset League, winning a league title in 1948, and then two more of the Class D Far West League in 1950 and 1951. The closure of the Far West League in January 1952 left the Silver Sox with no place to play and Reno went without professional baseball until the formation of the second Silver Sox franchise in the California League in 1955.
The Niagara Spartans were a semi-pro football team active for three seasons between 1979 and 1981. During the 1980 and 1981 seasons the Spartans held their home games at Hyde Park Stadium, Niagara Falls’ minor league baseball stadium, better known today as Sal Maglie Stadium.
The St. George Roadrunners were a Utah-based independent minor league baseball team that scrapped and clawed its way through four seasons in the Golden Baseball League between 2007 and 2010. The Roadrunners were the second independent league club to try to make a go of it at Bruce Hurst Field on the campus of Dixie State College. The Zion Pioneerzz/St. George Pioneerzz of the Western Baseball League at the 2,500-seat ballpark from 1999 to 2001.
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